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Theme: Noteworthy It’s always a good day when I get to sit down and read the current issue of Absinthe: New European Writing. The twelfth issue, just released, is teeming with great poetry, fiction and essays. There’s a mini-homage to Danish poet, Dan Turell, by Thomas E. Kennedy as well as Turell’s poetry and an…

Although the Guadalajara Book Fair has long since passed, I wanted to share a bit of one of the exhibits they had during the fair. I took some video of the L.A. Lowrider exhibit which was pretty amazing. I don’t think you can actually ride in some of these, but they would be cool to…

Noteworthy I mentioned earlier in the week that I would post a video of the Quebecois poet, Stephane Despatie. He is one of the elite of the current Quebec literati. I didn’t catch the title of the poem or what book it was from, but you can check out his press, Ecrits des Forges, which…

Noteworthy Rubbing my hands with antibacterial soap while entering and leaving the expo center has now become a ritual for me. Not that I am a germophobe by any means, but the big tubs filled with gelatinous germ destroying agents is prominently displayed on a table before you go in the fair. I partook in…